Relaxing.

 

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Thank you comfy clothes for always being there to do homework in when I get home.  You make me smile.

CALlies

Last night I attended my annual high school CALlie awards!  For those of you who don't know the "CAL" in "CALlie" stand for "Change a Life," which is our department's theme.  The CALlies are my high school's version of the Tony's.  It is where people are nominated for and receive awards, perform, and even announce the next year's theater season.  This year I was nominated for a few things, but I took home one award last night, best featured actress, which was amazing. It was a fun way to end the theater year and seeing everyone all dressed up was so great.  I'm going to miss the CALlies and every moment of my high school theater experience.

Relaxing.

Life slowing down towards the end of this school year has been SO nice.  In fact, it almost seems... too nice.  Sometimes I have too much down time!  I have time to actually do what I need done after school and at home and still be in bed at a reasonable hour.  It's incredible!  I guess getting to sleep before the next morning is good for me... so I guess I'll learn to live with the change.

School ends in a little over a week.  Can you believe it?  I can!  I feel good about it, and it feels about time for it to be let go.  It's a bitter-sweet feeling to think about leaving what I love at school, but going on to bigger and better adventure.  I've gotten to know some of my roommates for school, and already I am so stoked to be with them.  I kinda love that I have no idea who I'm living with.  It's like a blind date! ...Except with a year long contract.  It's awesome!  I'm also very excited to be at school with my siblings, which I've never done before because of the age difference.  So I guess it'll be a new adventure for more than just me in my family.  You know what they say... "Let the good times roll!"

Hello All!

Daily Gratitude Shout Out!

Thank you lovely Harmon's Grocery Store for providing the most delicious pineapple I've ever had today.  You just made my weekend!

Senior Dinner Dance

Yesterday I had my last dance concert of High School.  Oh man... I'm going to miss that.  It was so fun!  I was in two pieces:  the first I choreographed (it was about Alzheimer's Disease. Watch it here! ), and the second was a Bollywood number choreographed by my lovely Indian friend Namisha.  It was so fun; all of our hard work paid off and it was a huge success!  Great way to end my high school dancing life.

Below you will see a picture of me and my Bollywood-babe, Namisha, who choreographed with me in the dance concert.  Love you girl!

Today my brother and sister-in-law, Dallin and Mariel, left for DC for the summer.  My brother got an internship down there so they'll be there for a few months.  The stinky part about that is they won't be here for my graduation, my birthday, or my family trip... which is poo.  However, I'm so proud of my brother and very excited for their journey!

I'm cutting my hair!!!  No, I'm not chopping it... but I am doing something kind of different.  I'll have to post a picture afterwards, but only if it turns out!  I'm nervous... I've never really gotten what I want out of a haircut before so I'm scared I'll look so different after.  But I need one because I look like Hagrid, so I'm going to have to buck up and take it like a woman!  Wish me luck!

Later tonight is my Senior Dinner Dance! I'm going with a bunch of girlfriends since it's a "non-date" dance, and we're going to have a ball.  This is the final dance of the year and ONLY for seniors.  Seniority rules! We're going to get all shnazzed up and get some good groovin' on.  I'll make sure I take plenty of pictures!

I Have a New Address for Fall!

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Thanks to the stage crew at my school.  Without them, our show would be nothing! 

The Wedding Singer!

Our wonderful production of The Wedding Singer opens this Thursday and runs through Saturday.  Show starts at 7:00pm, so if you're in the area come and check it out!  It'll be a fun show for a great night out!

More News!

So as I might have mentioned before, I will be attending BYU in the fall.  This is wonderful because it made me eligible for scholarships, of which I received a merit scholarship for Theatre!  How exciting is that!?  On top of that, I finally got my new home for the fall last night! It's crazy. Time flies so fast at the end of your senior year.  I hope with the show opening and all of my senior activities, the rest of my year year will keep moving and all of my final fun days will make it all worthwhile. 

Tah-tah for now!

Catching Up

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

"Thank you" goes out to my sister, Brianna, for the fun night we had last night together catching up!  We had dinner together and saw Water for Elephants, which was great.  Love you Bri-Bri!

Where Have I Been? 

Sorry it's been a while!  I was gone for a week in California with my performing arts group.  We performed in Disneyland and took an amazing workshop in Hollywood!  It was a beautiful trip.

After that I've spent this last week staying busy with homework and rehearsals.  Our show opens in about two weeks so rehearsals are getting later and later.  Also, AP and IB testing starts this Tuesday so everyone's been busy prepping for that.

News!

I have so many announcements!  First announcement is that I graduate in a month! Woo!  Speaking of which, I was selected to speak at my graduation which is a huge honor.  I was also accepted to BYU where I will be attending school in the fall and I cannot wait!  I will be rooming with one of my best friends, Clarissa.  Then my brother, Matt, received his mission call to San Diego, CA!  How amazing is that!  I'm so proud and excited for him!

This week...

This week things are going to pick up again as rehearsals go an hour later than usual and my IB testing starts.  I'll try to keep you posted along the way!

Much love! 

Happy Birthday to My Sistah!

Happy Birthday Bri Bri!

It's my sister's birthday today!

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Thank you Brianna for the many wonderful years together!  Thank you for being an amazing sister, best friend, and example to me.  I couldn't ask for a better sister. I hope your birthday is a memorable one.  Love you Bri!

Wow.  Today the "craziness" finally kicked in.  YARG!

Well, that "crazy" I was talking about earlier finally hit me.  I have so much to do!  I was having panic attacks all day, but my day started out stinky from the very beginning.

I woke up with a migraine and a terrible sore throat, had a horrifically bad hair day, my breakfast spilled ALL over me in the car on the way to school and I almost died while trying to clean it up, and after hitting every single red light I arriving late to school.  At this point I accepted that I had a horribly bad day ahead of me.  Then, at lunch I needed to run out and grab something out of my car.  I run out there and see that my keys are inside my LOCKED car.  Called my mom and started hyperventilating as I tried to tell her about my keys, which turned into me bawling in the parking lot to my mom as I vented about everything going on.  It was crazy.

Then in my next class, something hit me.  I remembered my post from a few days ago!  "I decide whether my day is good or bad."  Duh!  So I wrote down everything that was bugging me or that I  needed to get done, ate some chocolate, splashed my face with some water, and was brilliant.  After that my day started getting better and better.  Came home to my sister's birthday party and had yummy cake.   Made everything better.

But then, I looked at my list of things to do, and realized... I have a heinous amount of things to do!  Not only throughout the next couple days, but during Spring Break nonetheless!  That's just rude.  But I'll make sure I keep chocolate with me at all times, so in case I need to "decide" to make my day better, I'll have a plan of attack.

State!

Tomorrow is my State Theater Competition!  Woo!  I have an all day event for our One Act portion of the competition, and then the next day I compete in three rounds for my monologue event.  Wish us luck!

 To Bri, 

Here's a virtual birthday cake.  Yummy!

Full of Crazy.

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

"Thanks" goes to rest and chicken noodle soup.  Thank you for your comfort and healing properties.

Waiting For the Crazy to Kick In.

Nothing much is going on so far.  This week is scheduled to be SUPER busy and crazy, but over the weekend I made a promise to myself to take this week one day at a time.  And it's working!  So far all the craziness hasn't kicked in!  It's great. So I hope to keep that up.

As far as craziness goes...

Remember that competition piece my school did of "The Laramie Project?"  Well, our team competes this weekend at State!  So that is exciting.  But that's not even the craziest news...  due to those "important faces," I mentioned before, showing up to our Showcase, we were just invited to perform "The Laramie Project" at a district-wide principal's meeting on the 27th!  Crazy huh?!  Bah!  Everything's "crazy" right now!  On top of that, I might have to get my tonsils out.  Definite no bueno.  But, nothing's official yet.  They're still watching the little suckers, but I'll let you know when I get more information on that.  Hopefully I can keep them! 

That's all for today! I'm gonna go eat some more soup.

Stay healthy!

The Update

Daily Gratitude Shout-Out!

Shout-Out goes to my very best friend, Kate.  Thank you for your friendship.  Last night was the greatest! I'm glad we can make the best out of anything together!  It was so fun, and I wouldn't have replaced a moment of it to go to that stinky Prom.  Our fun and laughs are priceless.

My Frɒm Update!

Last night was bomb.  Frɒm went exactly according to plan,
and I wouldn't have wanted to change a single minute.

After sleeping in, having a delicious breakfast, and tidying up my room, Kate came over.  After I got ready, I did Kate’s hair and make-up, and we got in our pretty prom dresses from last year to take some pictures.  Then my wonderfully proud mother took our pictures while we were all prettied up. She was just so sweet telling us how beautiful we looked, and we felt pretty good!  We felt so pretty, and it was so fun to dress up even though we weren't going to the dance.         
 

After that we drove to Salt Lake City and decided to hit the 7:05 showing of the new edited version of The King's Speech at the Broadway Centre Theater.  It was such a great movie; very inspirational with a beautiful message of having confidence in your own voice, which was appropriate when we thought about it.  Then we drove around for about a half hour searching for our restaurant, The Red Iguana. Once we finally found it, it was close to closing time so there wasn’t a wait, which was nice.  It was a great atmosphere and the service was amazing!  Our waiter, Geraldo, was the best and was so good to us.  The food was SOOOO good and very authentic.  We ordered dessert, and when the big plate of sopapillas arrived he told us that no one has ever finished the whole plate before and he doubted that we'd be the first. 

      

Needless to say... we were the first!  Ha!  We downed that sucker in like two minutes!  It was awesome.  He came back to our table and freaked out when he saw we had actually finished. He couldn't believe it and, to be honest, I couldn't either.  There was so much on that plate!  (I'm pretty sure it had something to do with us coping with not going to Prom.  Subconsciously, I bet we downed that plate to cope with the situation and stress eating was the best coping mechanism our brains could conjure up.  But I didn’t mind… it was delicious!!!) 

Anyway, after Geraldo was done laughing he asked us why we were in Salt Lake.  We told him our sad story and he was very sympathetic towards us.  By the end of the night, we were the best of friends with Geraldo and he told us our dessert was “On [him] tonight.”  He also promised that if we ever come back, we just needed to "ask for Geraldo" and he'll give us the "hook-up," meaning we won't have to wait the two-stinking-hours.  It was so cool!  The night concluded with us falling asleep to Meet the Robinsons in our PJ's.  It was the best.

The night had not been wasted!!! 

Even though we didn't get asked to Prom, we made the best of it and went out ourselves.  And what came of it?  Well, we:

• Got all pretty in our dresses and still got our Prom pictures.
• Had a night out in Salt Lake.
• Saw a great movie.
• Had yummy food at a new place we had never been before.
• Had a whole plate of sopapillas for FREE! ("Free" makes everything so much better.)
• Made a new friend.
• Got "the hook-up" at a popular restaurant.
• And a stronger best friendship than ever and a million more inside jokes to prove it.

I think that’s a pretty nice list!  It was so fun and relaxing to just go out with my best friend.  I don’t regret not being asked to the Prom.  Before, it was easy to get down on the matter, but after Frɒm being such a huge success, how could I want anything else!  I wouldn’t trade the fun I had for anything.  Thank you, Kate!  Thank you, Geraldo! And thank you, Frɒm!

P.S.  Here's some Frɒm-night pics: